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THE SAGE OE EL AL1SAL 

Prophet is not with¬ 
out honor save in his . 
_own country” is'an ax¬ 
iom inapplicable to Charles 
F. Lummis despite the 
fact that he has' been 
decorated by the King of 
Spain and elected to the 
Royal Academy of that coun¬ 
try. 

His forty years of heroic 
work for Spanish-America and the Great South¬ 
west as an historian, explorer, archaeologist, ethnol¬ 
ogist and critic is recognized at home as well as 
abroad. 


Mojonier , Photo 


Mote world-famous people, perhaps, make pil¬ 
grimages to his unique, hand-hewn home in the 
Arroyo, than to any other one house in all the 
West. Within the Court of the Alcalde Mayor 
gather statesmen, authors, generals, actors, na¬ 
turalists, painters, librarians, dancers, historians, 
singers, educators, composers, sculptors and pio¬ 
neers to grasp the hand and share the old-time 
California hospitality of the Sage of El Alisal. 





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2 


THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 



THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


HEN Theodore Roosevelt was being driven over 
the Arroyo Seco to South Pasadena on March 
25, 1911, after having spoken at Occidental 
College, he turned suddenly to one of his 
companions and remarked in his characteristic 
way, “This Arroyo would make one of the greatest 
parks in the world!” 



Twelve years later to a day, the former President’s 
dream became a reality. 

On March 25, 1923, acting at the instance of the 
Arroyo Seco Federation, the Los Angeles City Council 
passed the necessary ordinance which reserves for all 
time sixty acres of the bed of this Arroyo as a great 
playground for all the people. 

Thus is spread at the feet of the Five Friendly Val¬ 
leys one of the world’s most unique recreational centers. 


It was but natural that Colonel Roosevelt should grasp 
the possibilities of the Arroyo Seco at a glance. Men 
of vision and imagination had always done so. The 
Colonel’s closest companion that day was Charles F. 
Lummis, Harvard classmate and life-long friend. Lum- 
mis had dreamed Roosevelt’s dream away back in 1 885 
when he came striding down the bank of the Arroyo 
on the last lap of his historic transcontinental hike. He 




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THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


3 


preached Arroyo Park from that day on, through all 
the Five Friendly Valleys of the Highlands. And what 
a reward came to those labors and the laborer himself! 
For the beloved “Don Carlos” was made president of 
the very federation which carried the park fight of a 
quarter century’s duration to a glorious and successful 
conclusion. 



“The Colonel’s closest companion that day was 
Charles F. Lummis” 







4 


THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 



THE LURE OF THE ARROYO 

T was the vista of giant sycamores, rugged oaks 
and green hillsides that brought into being a 
town in the Highlands in the first place. That 
was back in the colorful boom days of the 
eighties. Before the boom, the Highlands were 
but grazing land. The only building remembered by 
those who rode the old Los Angeles-Pasadena mail stage 




“And when finally the rails of the Los Angeles and San Gabrie 
Valley Railroad were laid in 1885 . . .” 













THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


5 


was a slaughter house where now stands the Highland 
Park Ebell Club. A panoramic photograph taken as 
late as 1 887 shows but two or three houses in all of the 
present Highland Park and but a handful more in the 
present Annandale and Garvanza. 

But, spread before the bare valleys was the lovely 
Arroyo with its great trees, its restful shade and its 
inviting grasses. And when finally the rails of the Los 
Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad (later the 
Santa Fe) were laid in 1885 and the winter tourists 
came out from Los Angeles, the scene invited them. 
It so invited them in fact, that they stayed, and made 
their homes where they might look out on the sycamores 
by day and listen to the babbling of the stream by night. 

A SELECTED PEOPLE 

T was virgin land-a land of gently sloping 

hills and soft, undulating valleys. Such a coun¬ 
try invariably appeals to a distinct type of 

people-a people of an artistic and literary 

bent. 

It was not unnatural, then, that the first action taken 
after the starting of a school in Miller’s Hall, was the 
establishing of a public reading room. The people 
voted to deny themselves the enjoyment of amusement 
places in Los Angeles for a year and with the savings 
build up the community library. Mrs. Dexter donated 
the flour to make paste for the wall paper. Mrs. Lind¬ 
say donated chairs, Mrs. Stewart, pictures and a stereo¬ 
scope with many views! “Harper’s Young People’’ was 
subscribed for as a good start in periodical literature. 




“It was virgin land—a land of gently ^sloping hills and soft, 
undulating valleys” 






6 


THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 



the first branch library ever built in Los Angeles.*’ 


Nor, later, was it hard to understated why the first 
branch library ever built in Los Angeles should have 
been located in the Highlands and that to insure its 
location, the people raised thousands of dollars for a 
site which they presented to the city. Nor, was it any 
wonder, in the later nineties when everyone was des¬ 



and kept them alive with an old water cart operated 
by horse power” 





















THE FIVE, FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


7 


perately “hard-up” all over Southern California that 
the community should have raised sufficient funds to 
buy a ten acre tract which it presented to Occidental 
College as an inducement to secure its location in the 
Highlands. Neither was it any wonder during the same 
bleak period of the “lean nineties,” that the Garvanza 
Improvement Association should have planted 500 street 
shade trees and kept them alive with an old water cart 
operated by horse power. Out of this grew the obser¬ 
vance of Arbor Day throughout the county. 

AN EDITOR WITH A SENSE OF HUMOR 

Y the end of 1887, Garvanza, which of the 
Five Friendly Valleys was the first to be settled, 
had grown to a population of 500. Lots were 
selling rapidly at from $350 to $400. It was 
a going community. Among its many assets 
was the “Garvanza Gazette,” which succeeded the “Gar- 
vanzan,” a small sheet furnished by one of the realtors. 
The “Gazette,” fortunately, was edited by a man with a 
sense of humor-a genus only too rare among coun¬ 

try journalists. 

And so, just as Judge Glover with his “South Pasa¬ 
denan,” over on the other bank of the Arroyo Seco, was 
bringing a weekly message of good cheer to his readers, 
so was Winfield Hogaboom helping with his “Gazette” 
to soften the hardships which the settlers in a new and 
untried country were naturally subjected to. Such men 
were needed too, and badly, right after the boom broke 
and the bottom seemed to have dropped out of Califor¬ 
nia. There were no longer any thrills to be imparted, 
but what the “Gazette” lacked in that, it made up in 
glorious fun. After waiting seemingly indefinitely to give 




Garvanza in 1887 







8 


THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


THE GAEVANZAX. 


i’OL 


GARVANZA,- CAL.,' JULY 26, 1887. NO.' 1, 


THE G AR VA N Z AN. 

i-irm.isiii«;i> WKibti.v by 


irtion 

No discount for l.u 

JCPA'M Um &vx;Vl !;V 

Terms, cash in. Advance. 


Garvanza. 

This beautiful suburb of 

Jones & MkseroiS, ^ Aa « f * j s - a, » ut f ™ r 

.;AKVA SZ A,.«ANU E L Ea ,,'A,.:|“ < i Tt 

Ocvotcd to the interests j ghe California Central Rail- 
of (la.uvaijza. ^ wav, the main line of the 

t'lKCULATiox • Fame. \ A.-T. & S. F. Rv. in Cali- 

ADVERTISING RATES. form T- > - 

$L00 p?r inch for one Garvanza' is situated nfr 
month. Heading notices,, a plateau in the valK-v of 
l octK. per line for e^eh in-| tli( . Arroyo Seen, the valley 
; widening until *it merges 
into the Los Angeles Liver 
V. ’ 'Aidti vTaAl t<r 
the han Gabriel Liver- Vat- 
Salutatory. .Icy on tie- east. - yn the 

We have two ehjcetl* in 'dividing ridge at the east 
commencing the puhlica- is Pasadena, and lulow at 
tion of The Gakyaxzax, : i 1 -e south west can )p. seen 
vz: to, increase our mtn the spires of Los Angelcse 
business and to benefit the The town is parliallv sur- 
towu of Garvanza or thoj rounded by rolling hill’s. On 
people therein. If a liber-; the east is one vast plain 
al advertising patronage is. as far as the eye van reach, 
bestowed on us, we shall and on the north is the 
publish a full-fledged regu- lofty mountain wall of the 
la lion sized local newspa-i Sierra Madrcs,. 
per. At any rate, the size! No healthier place can 
°f our paper will he in- be found. The air is dry 
creased, its fast as the needs j and bracing, the water is 
of the town demand it. jas good as one could wisli, 


?***** «**•<=* 


The first paper in the Highlands 

his readers a sensation, the scribe was finally accomo- 
dated by Jacobson old sorrel running away and throw¬ 
ing the driver in a shapeless mass against the sun¬ 
baked road only to have “aforesaid shapeless mass 
appear at the main entrance of our editorial sanctum 
and kindly request us not to put it in the paper!” 

Some people seem to think that because an editor 
can t wear good clothes and lead in prayer, that he 
wouldn’t make a good delegate to the Republican County 
Convention, bewailed Hogaboom at another time. 
Speaking of the Democratic County Convention he said: 

1 he freedom of the city was tendered the delegates but 
we noticed a general tendency to bring in the clothes of! 
the line before dark! 













THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


9 



The Pioneer Mother, Tempe Sarah Ann Rogers, and her children. 
Her sons, Ralph (center) and Edward (right) subdivided most 

of the Highlands 

THE PIONEER MOTHER 

ARVANZA, at that time, and in later years, 
York Valley, Hermon, and parts of Highland 
Park were subdivided and put on the market 
by Ralph and Edward Rogers. The latter, 
with three of his sisters, still lives in the com¬ 
munity. They had a most remarkable mother. When 
the great statue of the Pioneer Mother was created 
by Charles Grafly for the Panama-Pacific Exposition, the 
sculptc r might well have been inspired by this partic- 
u’ar woman. Ambitious that her eight sons and daugh¬ 
ters might have a real chance in life and seeing none 
for them in the war-devastated South, Tempe Sarah Ann 
Rogers, with the help of her husband, banded together 
one hundred families of Denton County, Texas and with 
one hundred team of oxen set out in their covered wag¬ 
ons on April 3, 1868 over the Santa Fe Trail for the 
Promised Land by the Shining Pacific. It was an ad¬ 
venturous journey. Three hundred steers, crazed by 
thirst, stampeded at the sight of water and went down 
in the quicksands of the Pecos River. Fortunately, 
buffalo proved plentiful enough to keep up the meat 
supply. Mistaking the first sight of giant cacti for dis¬ 
tant bands of Indians, the scouts rushed back and got 
the hundred wagons rounded in battle array. Ralph 












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THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 



Tempe Sarah Ann Rogers, Pioneer Mother who led a caravan 
of 100 families across the plains by ox teams in 1868 

Roge rs, sixteen years of age and the oldest of the Rogers 
children, was the first scout to venture forth again, 
prove the mistake that had been made, and start the 
procession on its way again. An injury to one of his 
sisters brought a halt of three weeks, none of the whole 
entourage being willing to leave the Rogers family be¬ 
hind, a prey to the Indians. At other times, death, 
with a burial in the desert waste, and childbirth, caused 
a halt. From time to time they came upon the char¬ 
red wrecks of other caravans that had been annihilated 
by the savages. The fear of the Indians was only ex- 






THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


I I 


ceeded by the dread of an exhausted water supply. A 
providential midsummer rain on the burning Arizona 
desert saved the lives of the adventurers on one occas¬ 
ion. Three weeks were consumed in building rafts 
and in fording the bridgeless Colorado River. 

The Pueblo de Los Angeles was reached on October 
23, 1868, more than six months from the date of de¬ 
parture, and although the immediate relief was great, 
it was months before the memories of the songs and the 
jokes around the camp-fire at night and the blaze of 
the desert wild flowers, by day, began to supplant the 
recollections of death and horror and dread among the 
immigrants. 

WORKING OUT A DESTINY 

R. Rogers passed away twelve years later, but 
the Pioneer Mother lived until 1 890. She saw 
Los Angeles grow to a city of 30,000. While 
driving over the hills overlooking the city, but 
three days before her death, she remarked 
proudly to her daughter, Mrs. Sarah J. Royer, “This 
town will some day be one of the greatest cities of the 
world. It will spread from the mountains to the sea!” 

The Pioneer Mother saw her two sons, Ralph and 
Edward, build up a prosperous fuel and feed business 
at the corner of Third and Spring Streets. She saw them 
excavate for the Baker Block and build the first cable 
car line in Los Angeles out Temple Street. She saw 
them subdivide Garvanza at a time when grocery stores 
would not deliver south of Seventh Street in Los Angeles. 

She did not live to see her Indian scout boy penetrate 
the deepest snows of Alaska and brave the fevered 
swamps of Central America in search of a fortune. She 
did not live to see him return and give 95 acres to Oc¬ 
cidental College in the York Valley. Nor did she live 
to see Edward, answering the old call of the open range, 
go into the cattle raising business when he could just 
as well have stayed and collected rents off of corner 
stores and pitched horseshoes at the Old Settlers Club. 



York Valley from Museum Hill 










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THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 



SUBDIVIDING A RANCHO 



OSSIBLY the brilliancy of the wild fl owers of 
the Highlands first attracted the Rogers Broth¬ 
ers to this region, for tl -;se flowers were fam- 
land 


ous even in 


common. Botanists are said 
to have classified 1 80 differ¬ 
ent varieties during the late 
eighties in the Five Friendly 
Valleys. Over eighty varie¬ 
ties are found in the San Ra¬ 
fael Hills now. In the eigh¬ 
ties, the rare Matilija poppy 
grew in the Highlands. The 
Ma riposa lily was to be 
found in secluded reaches of 
the Arroyo. The California 
poppy, the “paint brush,” 
and the garbanzo were ra¬ 
diant on the hillsides. Be¬ 
cause the latter flower, a 
species of the wild sweet 
pea, seemed to predominate, 
the Rogers Brothers took its 
name (changing it later to 
Garvanza) for their first 
tract. 


where wild flowers are 



Andrew Glassell 





1 HE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


13 




The old Andrew Glassell Jr. home 


"The Mariposa lily was to be found in the Arroyo” 

The Rogers Brothers purchased the land from And¬ 
rew Glassell, the home of whose son, Andrew Jr., 
still standing on the Arroyo bank between Avenues 64 
and 65, was the first home built in all the Highlands. 







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THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 




“The Sierra Madre Villa stage stopped daily at the hotel” 


Don and Dona Miguel Goldaracena leased all the Highlands for 
sheep pasture in 1871 

Andrew Glassell s partner was A. C. Chapman and their 
holdings included practically all of this region. Before 
they purchased the land in 1870 at one dollar an acre 
it was a part of the princely Rancho San Rafael of 
f 14,000 acres as owned by the Verdugos. They leased 
their broad acres to sheep raisers. Don and Dona Miguel 






THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


15 



“Business lots sold as high as $1500“ 


Goldaracena, grand uncle and aunt of Miss Lorencia J. 
Etchepare of Highland Park, grazed 15,000 sheep there 
in 1871. The old Occidental College campus was the 
sheep herders’ camp and the present Occidental campus 
was the location of the sheep-shearing corral. An old 
adobe ranch house stood on the site of Ed Hopkins 
home on Avenue 54. 



A home in the Highlands 








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THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


GRANO FREE EXCURSION AND FREE LUNCH 

—__TO- 

GARVANZO! 



FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1857. 

Train leaves L. A. & S. G. V. R. R Depot at 9:30 A. M. 

Auction Sale at lO o’clock A. M. 

Don’t fail to examine the Business and Residence 
Lots in the healthful town of Garvanzo. Only "Tour 
and one half miles from Los Angeles, on the line of the 
L. A. & S. G. V. R. R— has five trains'daily each way. 

The A. T. & S. F. R. R. will have completed their 
Connection at Garvanzo by June 1st. 

Water is piped to this property from the Mountain 
Water Company, and charged for at the Los Angeles 
City water rates. 

This Sale is Peremptory, and it is to the interest of all persons 
desiring good investments to be in attendance at this sale. 

For Further information apply to 

ROGERS, BOOTH <& CO. 

134 North Main Street. Los Angeles, 

OR 03S7 THE GKROTTISriDS -A.T G-.A-jFi'V'.A- 1ST250. 

NEWHALL’S SONS &. CO., Auctioneers, 

225 & 227 BUSH STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. 


There is nothing new under the sun 


Associated with the Rogers Brothers were Mr. James 
Booth and Mr. W. F. McClure, later State Engineer. They 
were organized as the Garvanza Land Company. The 
lots sold quickly. Business lots sold as high as $1500. 
Miller s Hall was the first business block to go up. The 
Garvanza Villa was opened by Hepburn & Company on 
November 15, 1886, with a great reception. It was one 
of the best of the boom-time hotels. D. O. Mills, the 
nationally famous banker, always spent his winters there, 
engaging a suite of rooms from year to year at a figure 
that compares favorably with rates now charged by 
fashionable tourist hotels in Pasadena and Santa Bar¬ 
bara. The Sierra Madre Villa stage with its four-horse 
tallyho coach stopped daily at the hotel. 












THE CHURCH OF THE ANGELS 

AN Rafael Heights and much property beyond 
and below, was owned at that time by Mr. 
and Mrs. Andrew Campbell-Johnson of Eng¬ 
land. Their ranch, also originally a part of 
Rancho San Rafael, comprised 2200 acres 
which they had purchased in 1083 from former Mayor 
Beaudry of Los Angeles. It was given over to cattle and 
sheep raising and general farming. Within the ranch 
was pretty Lake Johnson. The Campbell-Johnson or 
San Rafael Block, built in 1888 on Pasadena Avenue 
and Avenue 64, was the first brick building erected be¬ 
tween Los Angeles and Pasadena. 

While on one of the family’s annual visits from Eng¬ 
land, Mr. Campbell-Johnson died, and in 1 889 the widow 
built in his memory the famed Church of the Angels, 
still one of the show places of Los Angeles. The corner 
stone was laid Easter Eve, April 20, 1889. Although 
small, this church is so beautifully planned and so per¬ 
fectly proportioned that it is still a model of church ar¬ 
chitecture. The plans were brought from England and 
adapted by Ernest Coxhead, a local architect. Stone, 
quarried from the ranch, was used in the construction. 
When completed, it had as perfect a setting as any 
church in an English countryside. To the back were the 
gently sloping, poppy-covered hills. In the foreground 
was a green, sycamore-shaded meadow where grazed 
contentedly the sheep of the Campbell-Johnson ranch. 










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THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 




“The corner stone was laid Easter eve, 1889” 

v 

The hours were only marked by the sweet-toned bells in 
the steeple which could be heard faintly in the distant 
village. Now the church looks out on a rather thickly 
settled neighborhood, paved highways, street cars and 
hurrying automobiles. 

The Church of the Angels, because of the beauty of 
its architecture and its setting, drew worshippers from 


The first choir of the Church of the Angels 








THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


19 



Mrs. Andrew Campbell-Johnson at time she built the 
Church of the Angels 

considerable distances. Fashionable stage coaches, 
with their tall-hatted and liveried footmen, came over 
regularly, filled with the guests of the Hotel Raymond, 
until one fateful Easter that great caravansary, the first 
of the noted tourist hotels near Los Angeles, was 
burned to the ground during the hours of morning wor¬ 
ship. 

Previous to the Church of the Angels, the Methodist 
Church had been built. We read in the “Gazette” of 









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THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 









‘‘When completed it had as perfect a setting as any church 
in an English countryside” 

two new churches and a $10,000 school building going 
up at the same time. The building of church and school 
has been going on ever since until today the Highlands 
have nine large grammar schools, a high school, two 
colleges and fourteen churches. 


Lake Johnson 




THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


21 



“The first wedding, that of Thomas Fellows and Miss Mary E. 
■Jte..^r L, was a flippy event" 


LIFE IN THE EIGHTIES 

OCIAL life centered about the churches and 
the public reading room, with occasional polil- 
cal rallies and debates to vary things. Ever- 
so-often one of those traveling doctors with his 
kerosene torch-illuminated wagon and his 
burnt-cork comedians came to town. The editor with 
a sense of humor speaks of one coming along with a 
remedy warranted to cure everything from ingrowing 
toe-nails to asthma, with a book of songs, gags, fresh 
minstrel jokes, how to propose, and every man his own 
bootjack, with each and every bottle. At another time, 
we read of the Ladies’ Aid Society being disappointed 
in not getting the colored quartette out from Los Ange¬ 
les but going ahead with the fried chicken dinner just 
the same. A dance was given at the school house as a 
benefit to one of the store keepers who was seriously 
ill and in need of funds. The whole town turned out. 
The first wedding, that of Thomas Fellows and Miss 
Mary E. Stewart, was a happy event. 

The ratification of Benjamin Harrison’s nomination 
for the presidency was a rousing affair. All the Repub¬ 
lican candidates for county offices drove out in highly 
decorated phaetons from Los Angeles. J. A. Donnell, 
later District Attorney, famed all over the ccunty for his 









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THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 



A Bouguereau study in the art gallery of the Southwest Museum 


spell-binding abilities, was the principal speaker. He 
lived in the Highlands. Then we read that shortly 
after, a near panic was created among McKinney’s regu¬ 
lar boarders by the sudden appearance of the poll-tax 
collector. It was astonishing how quickly the boys 
rernembered previous engagements,” wrote the editor 
with a sense of humor. 


The Highlands were a part of the judicial township 
of Glendale and Burbank. All cases had to be taken 
to the former place for trial, although, occasionally, the 
justice of peace would hitch up his rig and drive over 
and try a case here. At one time, “hizzoner,” while 
on his way to the Highlands, stopped off at the old 
roadhouse, then being conducted in Sycamore Park, and 
arrived, finally, hardly in a frame of mind to take in all 
the facts necessary to reach a fair and impartial decision 





























































THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


23 



Where the roadhouses used to be 


LIQUOR AND ANNEXATION 

IQUOR presented a problem to be settled by 
the Five Friendly Valleys as well as by other 
communities at that time. It is said that one 
of the compelling reasons that led George W. 
Morgan to lay out Highland Park, was to con¬ 
fine the saloons in Sycamore Grove to the Arroyo. The 
editor with a sense of humor grew pretty serious when 
it came to discussing the saloon question and although 
he could not lead in prayer according to his own con¬ 
fession, he joined forces with the pastors in keeping 
the saloons from invading the Highlands. The upshot 
of the whole campaign was the annexation of Garvanza 
and Highland Park to Los Angeles in 1898. The an¬ 
nexationists claimed that since it seemed impossible to 
incorporate as a separate city, in order to keep out 
liquor, the only solution was to become a part of Los 
Angeles. Soon after, the roadhouses had to leave Syca¬ 
more Grove, now one of the city’s lovliest parks. 

The Five Friendly Valleys, like their neighbors, Pasa¬ 
dena and South Pasadena, which border the Arroyo 
Seco to the north, have always been very pronouncedly 
on the “dry” side of the liquor question, so much so, 
in fact, that from the Highlands was sent to Washington 
Charles H. Randall, the first congressman ever elected 
on the Prohibition ticket. 















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Student Body of the Frjhklin High School, 1923 


Helping dedicate a new school building in the Highlands 


Student Body, St. i^fcatius School. 1923 


Franklin High School R.O.T.C., 1923 









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THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 



Prize winning canvas by Prof. ludson in the Southwest 

Museum gallery 


THE ART LOVERS EXPLORE 

FTER the boom had b roken, there came, de¬ 
spite the depression, a new influence into the 
life of the Highlands that was to develop and 
give the community great fame. It was an 
influence that continues to be marked today. 
It was led by Professor William Lees Judson, a painter 
and teacher of great ability, who came in 1 893 and has 
lived and painted along the banks of the Arroyo ever 
since. In those early days, he, with Thomas Fellows, 
and other kindred spirits roamed the hills and vales in 
study and recreation. In the Arroyo, just below the 
Garvanza Villa, they discovered two brush-covered ex¬ 
cavations where the Mexicans from the Pueblo de Los 
Angeles buried their cannon in 1846 to prevent Fre¬ 
mont from capturing them. They also found, plainly 
marked, the old Monterey Trail, where the Padres trod 
while journeying from San Gabriel Mission to San Fer¬ 
nando Mission and then on northward. It crossed the 
Arroyo Seco from the South Pasadena side at about the 
present entrance to the Union Pacific bridge, coming 
up the Highlands side at Marmion Way. It went direct¬ 
ly over the present Methodist Church corner and by the 
old Mission Oak that stands today, happily preserved, 
in the middle of Avenue 63 near Eagle Rock Avenue. 
1 he Mission Oak shows signs today of having been used 
as a camping place by the travelers. From there the 
trail wended its way out York Valley to the San Fer¬ 
nando Valley. The grooves and ruts worn by the wheels 
of the carretas were plainly marked in those days. 

Remembering that John W^esley was a missionary in 














THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


27 



The Mission Oak 


Georgia at the same time that Father Serra was a mis¬ 
sionary in California, Professor Judson and Mr. Fellows 
always speak of the Methodist Church corner as the 
place where the trails of John Wesley and Junipero Serra 
meet. 



. . . where the trails of John Wesley and Junipero 

Serra meet” 




28 


THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 



Looking down Morite Vista Street during the "lean nineties.” 


THE LEAN NINETIES 

LONG with the rest of Southern California, the 
Highlands suffered a severe depression through¬ 
out all of the nineties. Busiriess lots in Gar- 
vanza that had been purchased at $1500 were 
sold for as low as $100. Ten acres in High¬ 
land Park were foreclosed at $300 an acre. Even the 
editor with a sense of humor was finally forced to cease 
publishing the Gazette. Fifty feet of the corner where 
now stands the new building of the Highland Park 
Branch of the Security Trust & Savings Bank could 
have been purchased for $125 in 1893. The corner of 
Avenue 56 and Monte Vista was purchased by J. P. 
Stocksdale for $60, who, despite conditions, opened the 
first store in Highland Park in 1891 and a year later 
established a postoffice. 




The first store in Highland Park 














THE FIVE FR1ENDIA VALLEYS 



Looking down Monte Vista Street, 1923 


A postoffice had been established in Garvnn/n in 1 H8(>. 
M iss Jennie 1. Gilbert, honored pioneer of that comimin 
ity, became postmistress in 1890 and remained in that 
position for thirty years. 

The I erminal Railroad, now the Union Pacific, came 
in 1890 and the Los Angeles Pacific, now the Pacific 
Electric, was built through the Highlands in 1893. 

Miss Gilbert acted as agent for both of these railroads 
in addition to her work ns postmistress, The Terminal, 
before the advent of the electric line, used to run twenty 
four trains a day between Los Angeles and Pasadena, 
all of them stopping at Garvanza. The electric cars, 
later, practically put the Terminal out of business. 





The Los Angeles Pacific (now the Pacific Electric) built 
through the Highlands during the lean nineties 






30 


THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 




The pioneer Bank of the Highlands, now the Highland Park 
Branch of the Security Trust & Savings Bank 


BIG ENOUGH FOR A BANK 


HE Five Friendly Valleys did without a paper 
until as late as June, 1905, when S. A. Wheaton 
started the “Highland Park Herald.” The 
country did not feel a real revival until about 
that time. The yellow carline had come to 
the Highlands. The corner of Pasadena Avenue and 
Avenue 57 rose to $1400 in value and on March 4 
1906, the Highland Park 
Bank was opened. We read 
in the “Herald” that “a 
large audience assembled in 
Wood’s Hall on Tuesday 
evening in honor of the oc¬ 
casion, a reception having 
been planned under the aus¬ 
pices of the Highland Park 
and Garvanza Improvement 
Association and the Ebell 
Club. J. A. Merrill, presi¬ 
dent of the former organi¬ 
zation, and Mrs. Mary G. 

Osmond, Ebell Club presi¬ 
dent, both spoke in a happy 
vein of the recent progress 
of the community. G. W. E. 

Griffith, founder and presi¬ 
dent of the Bank, responded, 
after which a musical pro¬ 
gram was given, refresh¬ 
ments were served and a so¬ 
cial time enjoyed by all. Ad¬ 
journment was then taken 
across the street to view the FiTprlifant 0 oITT Bank 










THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


31 




New building of the Highland Park Branch, Security Trust & 
Savings Bank, 1923 

new banking building of which Thornton Fitzhugh is 
the architect.” 

The pioneer Bank of Greater Highland Park was capi¬ 
talized at $ 1 00,000. Its directors were E. H. Stagg, 
John A. Merrill, J. W. Jeffrey, C. T. Crowell, W. R. 
Bacon, C. I. Ritchey, William R. Myers, G. W. E. Griffith 
and S. C. Wing. John B. Merrill was the first cashier. 
Oren Lientz, his successor, who remained as cashier until 
the time of his death in 1916, was a strong factor in the 
upbuilding of the Highland Park Bank. 

Th is is the same bank, which as the Highland Park 


Personnel of the Highland Park Branch of the 
Security Bank, 1923 














32_THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 



Adv * s °ry Directors of the Bank. Left to right. Thomas 
McCIement, Dr. C. W. Montgomery, W. R. Myers 
and Clyde M. Church, vice president and manager 


Branch of the Security Trust & Savings Bank has opened 
the doors of its new banking home at the northwest 
corner of Pasadena Avenue and Avenue 56. A com¬ 
parison of its deposits, its home and the size of its per¬ 
sonnel, with that of the original bank, is eloquent of the 
growth and progress of the Highlands in the last sev¬ 
enteen years. At the end of the first year of its exist¬ 
ence its deposits were about $75,000. At the end of 
its seventeenth year its deposits were $1,390,547. Its 
personnel in 1906 was two in number. Its personnel 

WMi. yea n iS >v J 5 in number - ° f its original directors, 
William R. Myers still remains to advise the officers in 
the conduct of its affairs. The successive presidents of 
the Bank up to the time of its merger with the Security 
Bank were C. W. E. Griffith, R. D. List, H. A. Church 
and Clyde M. Church. The latter has been actively in 
charge of the Bank’s affairs since 1912 and has taken 
a leading part in community affairs as well. The pres¬ 
ent officers are Clyde M. Church, vice-president and 
manager; C. G. Tilton, assistant manager; D. R. Whit¬ 
man, assistant secretary. The Advisory Board of Direc¬ 
tors, made up of men living in the Highlands, is com¬ 
posed of Thomas McCIement, C. M. Church, Dr. C W 
Montgomery and William R. Myers. 





THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


33 



The New Masonic Temple 

A GOING COMMUNITY 

THER improvements followed quickly the 
founding of the Bank. Pasadena Avenue was 
soon paved. The yellow carline was extended 
out into the York Valley. Business property 
along Pasadena Avenue rose to as high as $70 
a front foot. A Masonic Lodge was organized. By 
October, 1906, the Highland Park Bank had 500 ac¬ 
counts. The “Highland Park Herald’s” circulation had 
risen to 1 000 and it boasted of reaching every home in 
the Highlands. “Mother” Ransom started the “Ransom 
Home,” and Dr. F. E. Yoakum founded “Pisgah Home,” 




The Highlands from Museum Hill 












34 THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 



The Episcopal Home for Children 

two humanitarian institutions which commanded wide 
support. In Los Angeles’ first attempt io vote out the 
saloon in 1906, the Highlands constituted the only sec¬ 
tion of the city to cast a majority vote against the 
saloon. R. D. List, Charles E. Carver, W. F. Poor, G. 
W. E. Griffith, and C. H. Randall made up the delega¬ 
tion to the Republican County Convention which seem¬ 
ingly stood almost alone in the fight against racing at 
Ascot Park, the saloon, and the machine. 



Strickland Home For Boys 





THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


35 



Occidental College, 1898 to 1904 


OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE 

CTOBER, 1906, was significant in still other 
ways to the Highlands for on the twenty-sixth 
of that month, Dr. John Willis Baer was in¬ 
augurated as president of Occidental College. 
_ The college had been established in High¬ 
land Park since 1898, when a gift of land was 
made the trustees on condition that at least a $10,000 
college building be erected. Previous to that, Occidental 




The Hall of Letters when Occidental College was on 
Pasadena Avenue 






















36 


THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 



President Taft at Occidental College', 1910 


College Had been conducted, since its foundation in 
1887, in Boyle Heights. 

The corner stone of the Hall of Letters facing Pasa¬ 
dena Avenue Had been laid in 1904, while Dr. Guy W. 
Wadsworth was acting as president. President Baer se- 



Occidental wins! 






THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


37 



A glimpse of Occidental College today 



cured sufficient endowments, soon after he came, to 
build up a still stronger college. The college was recog¬ 
nized by visits from both President Taft and Ex-Presi¬ 
dent Roosevelt. The institution grew so fast that the 
need for a larger campus 
was soon felt and just ten 
years after the Hall of Let¬ 
ters was started, the college 
moved bodily to the magnifi¬ 
cent 95 acre campus which 
Ralph Rogers gave it in York 
Valley. Two years later, Dr. 

Baer retired from the presi¬ 
dency to engage in banking 
in Pasadena after having se¬ 
cured additional endow¬ 
ments that made possible 
the beautiful classic struc¬ 
tures, now so greatly admir¬ 
ed by all who visit the new 
Occidental. A program of 
continually increasing en¬ 
dowments and additional 


buildings is being carried 
out by Dr. Remsen DuBois 
Bird, now occupying the 
presidential chair. 


DR. REMSEN DUBOIS BIRD 
President of Occidental College 












38 


THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 



The Judson studios, formerly the College of Fine Arts of the 
University of Southern California 



THE COLLEGE INFLUENCE 

CCIDENTAL College has done much to crystal- 
ize the Highlands into the character they took 
back in the late Victorian days when they came 
into being. A college town” has always been 
synonymous with a “center of culture, refine¬ 
ments and good taste.” It seemed that Occidental came 
to reinforce the hills and the sycamores in bringing to 
the Highlands the sort of people who build up such 
centers. 

But in this connection, the College of Fine Arts of the 
University of Southern California must not be overlook- 
ed h was established on the Arroyo bank near the 
Pacific Electric bridge in 1901 and for two decades was 
conducted there by its founder and first dean, Profes¬ 
sor W. L. Judson. Here gathered students of art from 
all over the West to sit at the feet of Southern Cali¬ 
fornia s pioneer artist and teacher. Around this school 
grew up such a colony of artists as to attract Signor 
Antonio Corsi, long considered the world’s greatest art 

model. Like Professor Judson, Signor Corsi still lives 
here. 

The Highlands have furnished inspiration to such ar- 

N'll R J r ie M ' f ark "' Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wachtel, 
Ne 1 Brooker Mayhew, Karl Yenz, C. P. Austin, Hanson 
Puthuff Leone Wood, Fannie Duvall and Florine Hyer. 
Many of them still live here. 






THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


39 


Writers, too, have found great inspiration by the 
Arroyo-side. Here live or have lived Idah Meachan 
Strobridge, Mrs. Harriet Williams Myers, Will Leving- 
ton Comfort, Bessie Beatty, Olive Thorne Miller and 
Daniel Marion Hammack. J. M. Guinn, California his¬ 
torian, and Ben C. Truman, author and private secretary 
to President Andrew Johnson, lived for many years in 
the Highlands. Other prominent residents of the past 
or present include Dr. Hector Alliot, curator, decorated 
by the French government; W. J. Washburn, pioneer 
Los Angeles banker; Dr. James M. Peebles, author, lec¬ 
turer, world traveler, and member of the Indian Peace 
Commission of 1868; Prof. Ernest E. Allen, mathemati¬ 
cian, Miss Mary Foy, associate member of the Demo¬ 
cratic National Committee; Loye Holmes Miller, natur¬ 
alist; Dr. Lyman Beecher Sperry, explorer, author and 
Indian agent; Lorin Andrew Handley, economist and 
president of the first VFoodrow ^Vilson-for-President Club 
in America; W. A. Roberts, author of California s mini¬ 
mum wage law; Harry A. Wishard, author of California’s 
mothers pension law; Dr. John A. Gordon, president 
of the California Bible League; Belle Sumner Burn, gar¬ 
den authority; Dr. Henry Bartlett Gage, pioneer divine, 
geologist and astronomer; Dr. Robert G. Cleland, his¬ 
torian; Walter Fisher Skeele, dean of the College of 
Music of the University of Southern California; Prof. 
Howard L. Lunt, of the school of education of the same 
university; Charles F. Lummis, author, explorer, archae¬ 
ologist; J. W. Jeffrey, state horticultural commissioner; 
James E. Sprunger, state secretary of the Y. M. C. A.; 
Ed W. Hopkins, veteran county assessor; Rev. John H. 
Sammis, composer; Col. H. B. Hersey, scientist, explorer 



The first school house in Highland Park 









40 


THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 




The Los Angeles Free Methodist Seminary, Hermon 
and government meteorological observer; President Rem- 
sen DuBois Bird of Occidental College; Dean Thomas 
C. Burt of Occidental College; Mrs. Clara Hubbs, a 
founder of the national W. C. T. U.; Prof. Calvin O. 
Esterly, zoologist; Col. F. W. Hart, pioneer in American 
pure food legislation; and Dr. William D. Ward, classisist; 

1 hree years before President Baer arrived at Occi¬ 
dental, the Free Methodist Church established the Los 
Angeles Free Methodist Seminary in Hermon, transform¬ 
ing that pretty but almost uninhabited valley from a 
riHe range and golf links to a thriving community that 
today continues to grow and support the Seminary. Built 
°n \ hl L j. 1 , e ,’ , at lns titution commands a fine view of 
ali the Highlands and draws its students from all over 
the Southwest. It now offers two years of college work 
m addition to its secondary department. 


Franklin High School, City Champions, 1922 








THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


41 



The Highland Park Ebell Clubhouse 

THE COMING OF EBELL 

1NETEEN hundred three was also notable for 
the founding of the Highland Park Ebell Club 
with eighteen charter members meeting at the 
home of Mrs. Howard L. Lunt, who was given 
the h onor of naming the club “The Ebell.” 
Here was formed one of the most useful women s or¬ 
ganizations in Lc.s Angeles and a veritable well-spring 
of community spirit and endeavor for the Highlands. 
Perhaps the Arroyo Seco would never have been saved 
as a park had it not been for the cooperation of the 
Ebell Club, a service of inestimable value not only to 
the Highlands but to all Southern California. The park 
was secured shortly following Ebell’s plea for it. 

By 190 7, subscriptions had been started for a per¬ 
manent clubhouse for the Ebell with G. W. E. Griffith, 
president of the Highland Park Bank, leading off the 
list of donors.' On November 19, 1911, the corner 

stone of the present building was laid with over a 
thousand people present at the ceremony. Mrs. Mary 
G. Osmond officiated with the trowel. The crowd was 
the greatest public gathering ever held in the Highlands 
up to that time, but could hardly compare with the 
opening of the clubhouse itself on February 14, 1913, 

when 20,000 people inspected the new civic, educational 
and social center of the Greater Highland Park, before 
the day was over. 






















42 


THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 



.e Southwest Museum, showing tunnel elevator entrance 


THE SOUTHWEST MUSEUM 



INETEEN hundred three also saw the start of 
the Southwest Society of the Archaeological 
Institute of America and for that reason was an 
historic year for the Highlands. This society, 
of which Charles F. Lummis was the founder 
a nd first secretary, was formed for the purpose of 
collecting historical relics from everywhere, but partic¬ 
ularly those of the Great Southwest, and providing a 
suitable museum for their safekeeping and display. The 
great commanding building on the hill opposite Syca- 
more Park, overlooking all the Highlands and the great 
San Gabriel Valley beyond, stands as a monument to 
the society s endeavors and purposes. 

The Southwest Museum opened its doors formally on 
August 1 1914, just at the outbreak of the World War 

It, like all other similar institutions, suffered a decrease 
of support and activity because of the great conflict. 

1 he dream of its founder-emeritus as unfolded at the 
corner stone laying is still far from realization, although 
many exhibits of great interest and intrinsic value have 
been installed in the Museum from time to time 
r i he Southwest Museum is widening its scientific use¬ 
fulness by direct contact with large numbers and making 
tself indispensible to the cultural life of the community 
It has organized several educational activities and gives 
support and cooperation to other groups and organiza¬ 
tions having a common aim. 







THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


43 



The Highlands gave over 200 of her sons to the World War 


THE HIGHLANDS AND THE WAR 

UST as the war interrupted the Museum’s ac¬ 
tivities, so did it revolutionize the life of the 
Highlands. The Five Friendly Valleys gave 
over 200 of their sons to the World War. Five 
of them were wounded in action and five died 
in th e service. There were ten families which had at 
least three stars on their service flags. Several branches 
of the Red Cross were opened, the first of which met 
at the parish hall of All Saints Church with Mrs. Robert 
H. Lindsay in charge. No time was lost in giving im¬ 
mediate cooperation to the government. Occidental 
College closed its term early to permit its students to get 
into productive work. Drill classes were organized at 
the new Franklin High School, the community’s second¬ 
ary school which had been opened but a year before. 
Here too, school gardens were planted and instruction in 
camp and invalid cookery and home nursing was given. 
The Arroyo Seco home guards were formed and drilled 
on the new Arroyo Seco playground, just opened. An 
auto ambulance was donated as a memorial to John 
Nichols Haupt. Every Liberty Bond quota was oversub¬ 
scribed. Five Boy Scouts of Troop 43 won war service 
medals for their success in selling bonds. The whole 
community turned out to the Fourth of July celebration 
in 1917 at the playground. A community sing was held 
at this same center every Sunday afternoon. Carl 
Wheat, Franklin B. Skeele and Joe Waddel were deco¬ 
rated for bravery. Miss Mary A. Morrison, partially blind 
and paralyzed, knitted a stupendous number of garments 
for the soldiers. The High School, the Ebell Club, the 
ladies of York Valley and others gave various benefits 
and fetes that brought in large sums for war relief activi¬ 
ties. The Five Friendly Valleys were as one in their 
work for the winning of the war. 






















44 


THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 



“Perhaps the Arroyo Seco would never have been saved as a 
park had it not been for the cooperation of the Ebell Club” 


THE UNION OF THE VALLEYS 

EACE-TIME activities in the Highlands, since 
the War, as compared with those before the 
War, show what a stimulus the great conflict 
was to united community endeavor. There has 
been no relaxation. The Five Friendly Val¬ 
leys, realizing their common interests as never before, 
have come together and formed the Greater Highland 
hark Association. The big dinner at the High School 
where this union was brought about, was described by 
those in a position to know as the greatest civic event 
m the history of northeast Los Angeles. President Bird 
of Occidental College and Mrs. J. J. Carter of Holly¬ 
wood, s P°ke. Out of the dinner came a strong organi¬ 
zation of 500 members with a paid secretary. And out 
of it, too, came the almost immediate victory for the 
Arroyo Park, the saving of this romantic river bed with 
its giant sycamores and its age-old oak trees as a play- 
ground for all the people for all time. The possibilities 
of this park can only be realized when it is known that 
it is one of the completing units of a greater park sys¬ 
tem to be extended the whole length of the Arroyo Seco 
from Pasadena to Los Angeles, with a magnificent boule¬ 
vard along its bank connecting all the cities and com¬ 
munities on the way. 

The strongly developed social instinct of the peoples 
of the Highlands has not only given this great park to 













THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


45 



the Community Clubhouse is available to the use 
of all without charge” 


posterity, but it secured the land for the playground on 
which has but recently been built the Community Club¬ 
house with its gymnasium, auditorium, bowling alleys, 
billiard rooms, lounging rooms and nurseries, available 
to the use of all without charge. It turned the old pond 
opposite the Library into a modern cemented swimming 
pocl. Efforts to gain a playground and park for the 
York Valley is now receiving the united support of the 
Five Friendly Valleys. Campaigns for uniform tree 
planting through all the Highlands and ornamental lights 
for the business thoroughfares are in progress. 

In 1922, b uilding permits totaled nearly a million and 
a half dollars, as compared with a half million dollars 
the year previous. The High School enrollment in¬ 
creased from 600 to 1200 in two years time and to the 
school last year came the inter-scholastic baseball cham¬ 
pionships of Southern California and the football cham¬ 
pionship of Los Angeles. 



May Day in the Five Friendly Valleys 








46 


THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 



"Pe**p»no m?A tion ° f tY ? e l great city • • • does more to 

give children a real chance in life than the Five 
Friendly Valleys” 



CARRYING ON 

ROWTH of this character with its happy ac¬ 
companiment of real work accomplished, forti¬ 
fies the old spirit of the Highlands which or¬ 
ganized here the first incorporated public im- 
provement association in Los Angeles and the 
largest Parent-Teachers Association in America. It brings 
into further usefulness the spirit which replaced unsight¬ 
ly wood bridges over the Arroyo Seco with the sub¬ 
stantial artistic concrete spans of today; that stood first 
m all the city for the Owens River water project; that 
piled up majorities for good government in the hopeless, 
grart-ridden days when corruption in municipal govern¬ 
ment was accepted as inevitable and incurable; that or¬ 
ganized in the Highlands the political club that first pre¬ 
saged the great progressive revolt that was soon to sweep 
the state and a few years later, the nation. 

Founded and settled by Pioneers, the Highlands s*ill 
have their Spirit Here have always lived those who 
went ° n ahead and dared and did in the days when even 
the daring was unpopular and the doing brought only 
savage abuse and deep misunderstanding. 

But the Colorado has been crossed. 

The Pueblo de Los Angeles has been reached! 

And here in that portion of it where Tempe Sarah 
Ann Rogers saw her sons and daughters settle and 










THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


47 



And here are offered those things that make boys and girls 

joyous and wholesome 

work out their destinies, are offered today with a profuse 
hand those things that make boys and girls joyous, 
wholesome and intelligent. Perhaps no section of the 
great city the Pioneer Mother dreamed of does more 
to give children a real chance in life than the Five 
Friendly Valleys! 



Play time in the Highlands 















48 


THE FIVE FRIENDLY VALLEYS 


A WORD IN APPRECIATION 
From ihe Highland Par)[ Branch of the 
SECURITY TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK 

HE Highland Park Branch of the Security Trust 
and Savings Bank has published “The Five 
Friendly Valleys,” knowing that the history of 
the Highlands, once in type, would be in itself 
the best possible advertising the community 
could have. If you feel that we have told the story well 
enough for you to mail copies to your Eastern friends 
and relatives we shall be pleased indeed. 

We are greatly indebted to the “Old Timers” who 
have made this history possible by telling us of days- 
gone-by and generously loaning us treasured pictures. 
Our gratitude goes out especially to Mrs. Sarah J. Royer 
and W. E. Rogers, who as children came with their 
Pioneer Mother across the plains behind a team of oxen; 
to Miss Lorencia J. Ethchepare, whose great uncle leased 
most of the Highlands for sheep pasture in the seventies; 
to Hugh Glassell, whose father, Andrew Glassell, pur¬ 
chased most all this region from the Verdugos for one 
dollar an acre in 1870; to Thomas Fellows, pioneer 
builder; to Mr. Robert H. Lindsay, pioneer improvement 
society secretary, and Mrs. Lindsay; to Mrs. M. J. Clapp, 
G. W. E. Griffith, Mrs. D. Louise Stocksdale, Prof. 
William L. Judson, Miss Jennie I. Gilbert, D. S. Ham- 
mack, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Bradbeer of Eagle Rock, M. 
Gertrude Hart, Mark M. Horton, Fred M. Johnson, Jos¬ 
eph M. SnifFen, Ed W. Hopkins, Dr. Robert G. Cleland, 
Prof, and Mrs. Howard L. Lunt, C. M. Jay, A. A. Phillips, 
and A. J. White. We are also indebted to the “Highland 
Park Herald” for opening its old files to us. 

The Highland Park Branch of the Security Trust and 
Savings Bank offers this booklet as an evidence of its 
continuing desire to serve this community, just as it, as 
the Highland Park Bank has always endeavored to pro¬ 
mote the best interests of the Five Friendly Valleys. It 
is glad that, occupying as it now does one of the best 
equipped banking rooms in the residential section of 
Los Angeles and being a part of the largest bank in one 
community west of Chicago, it is able to more com¬ 
pletely serve local needs than ever before. The capital 
and surplus of the Security Trust and Savings Bank are 
nnrT and the resources total over $190,000, 

000. All of its many and varied departments are now 
d^ectly available to the public of Greater Highland Park. 

I he Highland Park Branch of the Security Trust and 
bavmgs Bank, through its officers and advisory directors 
who remain the same in personnel as have guided the 
destimes of the Bank for some time past, welcome all 
ot the Highlands to its new banking home. 







THE OLD MASTER 

71 DECADE ago George Wharton James concluded an 
JA article about William Lees Judson with these words: 
^ *■ “He is still as vigorous and active as ever. Years seem 
to have little power over him. He will doubtless paint until 
the Master Artist calls and thus leave behind him not only 
a large number of exquisite pictures but the memory of an 
‘active, busy, useful, joy-giving life.” 

If Mr. James wrote today of Dr. Judson he could well re-pen 
the same conclusion. 

The great painter was born in 1842 and is the father of seven 
children. He served throughout the Civil War. 

The crowning years of this pioneer of California Art are being 
spent in the Highlands. Here on the banks of his beloved 
Arroyo the Old Master still finds the inspiration that fired 
his genius to noble achievement thirty years ago. 























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